ThisIsLeesy
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He/Him | 18 | Australian
actual nerd
NOTE: I rate things highly because I usually don't go out of my way to play bad video games B)
Played: games I have actually rolled credits on
Completed: games I've either 100%ed or close to if there are no achievements or goals that track completion progress (eg: getting all moons, purple coins and costumes in smo)
RATING SYSTEM:
5: mastapeece/all time favourites. play these games right now if you haven't
4.5: amazing but a few gripes that stick w/ me. 100% recommend tho
4: really good. highly recommend playing but may either be short or doesn't connect with me too much
3.5: good. very solid games that I probably wont really come back to that much
3: okay. I'd still recommend but may not be for me
2.5: mid. either boring or forgettable
2: kinda bad but more offensively boring than anything
1.5: bad BUT not necessarily unenjoyable
1: really bad AND unenjoyable
0.5: actual garbage I would NEVER recommend anyone playing
He/Him | 18 | Australian
actual nerd
NOTE: I rate things highly because I usually don't go out of my way to play bad video games B)
Played: games I have actually rolled credits on
Completed: games I've either 100%ed or close to if there are no achievements or goals that track completion progress (eg: getting all moons, purple coins and costumes in smo)
RATING SYSTEM:
5: mastapeece/all time favourites. play these games right now if you haven't
4.5: amazing but a few gripes that stick w/ me. 100% recommend tho
4: really good. highly recommend playing but may either be short or doesn't connect with me too much
3.5: good. very solid games that I probably wont really come back to that much
3: okay. I'd still recommend but may not be for me
2.5: mid. either boring or forgettable
2: kinda bad but more offensively boring than anything
1.5: bad BUT not necessarily unenjoyable
1: really bad AND unenjoyable
0.5: actual garbage I would NEVER recommend anyone playing
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This DLC pack is amazing. After finishing up most of the main game outside of the final boss (as I knew you were sent straight into NG+ after beating the game), I was left feeling underwhelmed. This game is full of highs and lows, and the base game certainly had a LOT of lows. Rom and Micolash might actually be one of the worst bosses I've ever fought in a game, and some of the areas were just a pain in the ass to get through. However, The Old Hunters LITTERALLY fixes every single one of my complaints with the base game. Whilst some of the consistency issues still apply, as Laurence is a dogshit boss and ruins the fun the cleric beast had for me, and the Living Failures is just a more buffed up and annoying celestial emissary, all of the 3 areas in this game are easily the best in the game, with the only base game areas being up for contention being central yharnam and MAYBE cathedral ward and forbidden woods, and the other 3 bosses in this game are easily among the best in the game, with Lady Maria being my personal favorite BB boss. While other DLCs aim to be an addon to the already phenomenal base games of fromsoft entries, TOH and also Ringed City I have always seen as genuinely essential to every single run I have done, as Bloodborne and to a lesser extent DS3 would suffer greatly without them. The Old Hunters overall is just a phenomenal DLC pack that I run in all of my BB playthroughs, as It never gets dull and just elevates BB as a whole considerably above other noteworthy fromsoftware games
This review contains spoilers
This is probably my favorite pack from the ds2 dlcs, and it has good reasons to be. Frozen Eleyme Loyce is one of the best areas in any fromsoft game, and the Burnt Ivory King is my favorite boss fight in DS2, and definitely my favorite spectacle fight in any fromsoft game. However, this pack also has what I would probably consider the worst area ever created in any game, or at least the worst area I've ever played in any game. Frigid outskirts is just an absolute hell hold, and the fact your reward is a reskin gank fight of a boss in the fucking dlc pack is just awful. Lud and Zallen is unironically my least favorite fight in a souls game (yes including BOC), and by extension is easily one of the worst bosses I've ever fought in any game period; up there with the final boss from the blade wolf DLC of MGRR, Savior from DMC4, Arkham from DMC3, and most of the bosses in DMC2. It is genuinely that fucking bad and while I would absolutely recommend someone to play through FEL and the main section of this dlc, I will never in a million years ever even consider recommending FO to even my worst enemy, as it is genuinely that bad. This DLC pack is still phenomenal, but frigid outskirts holds it back from being one of my all time favorite DLC packs.
And for the record, I beat every single DLC area and boss TWICE; once in scholar and once in vanilla. For Scholar I used summons for FO and black separation crystalled them away for L&Z, but on vanilla I raw dogged it and beat the entire area and boss with no summons. I think my combined time spent in FO is at least 4-5 hours, and you could not pay me money to replay that shit again
And for the record, I beat every single DLC area and boss TWICE; once in scholar and once in vanilla. For Scholar I used summons for FO and black separation crystalled them away for L&Z, but on vanilla I raw dogged it and beat the entire area and boss with no summons. I think my combined time spent in FO is at least 4-5 hours, and you could not pay me money to replay that shit again
This review contains spoilers
This is a big step up in quality from sunken king, but is still full of some glaring issues. The 2 biggest compliments I can give this pack is that Brume tower is one of the best areas in any fromsoft game period, and that all 3 of the bosses (yes including BSD) are all well-made and at the very least fun to actually fight. What is NOT fun in this dlc is that 2 of those 3 bosses have some of the worst runbacks I've ever seen in a game (BMS being so bad that the fact the boss is also a reskin of a great boss in the main game harms its enjoyability factor tenfold). This DLC does a lot of things right, but the run backs that this pack created just hurts so much of its replay value it's insane. Still absolutely essential to anyone's DS2 run though, as at least 4 of the 6 hours this pack will take you to beat are some of the best 4 hours you can have in a souls game